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Trump and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.

The alarums are especially loud this year because the court in recent terms has overturned a number of high-profile ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has several avenues at its disposal as it appears poised to limit a central ...

A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to the legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a ...

As the state of Alabama prepared to execute a death row inmate on Thursday with nitrogen gas, the U.S. Supreme Court's three ...

Alabama executes Anthony Boyd by nitrogen gas for a 1993 murder, renewing debate over the method’s legality and claims it ...

Anthony Boyd was the eighth person executed by nitrogen gas since Alabama began using the method last year. His execution ...

An Alabama man convicted of helping to burn a man alive in 1993 over a $200 drug debt was executed by nitrogen gas on ...

The state of Alabama on Oct. 23, 2025, executed convicted murderer Anthony Boyd by nitrogen gas just hours after the U.S.